• History

    Urbanism

    How Local and Federal Laws Disenfranchised a Generation of Black Homeowners

    Bernadette Atuahene on the Lasting Material and Psychological Impact of Racist Post-War Housing Policies

     
    By Bernadette Atuahene  January 31, 2025
    Globalization

    Humanity’s Claustrophobia: How Technology and Globalization Created a World in Crisis

    By Robert D. Kaplan  January 29, 2025
    Biography

    How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary

    By Ruth Franklin  January 29, 2025
    The Nuclear Age

    How Literature Predicted and Portrayed the Atom Bomb

    By Dorian Lynskey  January 28, 2025
    African American Literature

    How Black and White America Reacted to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    By Scott W. Stern  January 28, 2025
    The Hub

    The Trump administration just scored a major goal for book bans. (Which it claims are a “hoax.”)

    By Brittany Allen  January 27, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Anarchy and Art

    “Anarchism Means That You Should Be Free.” On the Literature of Liberation

    By Ed Simon  January 27, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Gemma Tizzard on Researching for Historical Fiction

    By Gemma Tizzard  January 24, 2025
    On Grief

    Matter, That Curious and Complex Illusion: Grieving for the Dead in a Universe of Atoms

    By Guido Tonelli  January 23, 2025
    Ethics

    Will Humanity Ever Fully Include the Nonhuman World in Its Moral Circle?

    Jeff Sebo on Our Attempts to Measure Intrinsic Value

    By Jeff Sebo  January 29, 2025
    Criminal Justice

    An Understanding Ear: How Martha Goddard Became An Advocate For Victimized Women

    By Pagan Kennedy  January 22, 2025
    Colonialism

    The Unsolved Tale of a British Slave Ship’s Uprising and Shipwreck

    By James H. Sweet  January 17, 2025
    The Hub

    Vampires, pranks and podcasts: here are some ideas to reboot 2025’s public domain books.

    By James Folta  January 16, 2025
    Mathematics

    How the Islamic Golden Age Helped Create Modern Mathematics

    Raúl Rojas on the Origins and Etymology of Some of Our Most-Used Mathematical Terms

    By Raúl Rojas  January 15, 2025
    Segregation

    Beyond Brown: How the Failure of Desegregation in the North Reveals America’s Lingering Racial Fault Lines

    By Michelle Adams  January 15, 2025
    Prehistory

    Out of Africa: Discovering Our Shared Human Family, From Toumai to Turkana Boy

    By Zeinab Badawi  January 15, 2025
    Forgery

    The Forgers Hall of Fame: A Brief History of Literary Fakes and Frauds

    By Bradford Morrow  January 14, 2025
    The Hub

    At this year’s MLA convention, protestors put Palestine on the docket.

    By Brittany Allen  January 13, 2025
    Class

    My Babies Are Richer Than Yours: On the Lie of the Online Tradwife

    By Lauren Carroll Harris  January 10, 2025
    On Race

    How Ericka Huggins and the Black Panther Party Attempted to Liberate Black Women in America

    By Mary Frances Phillips  January 10, 2025
    Agriculture

    Why Did We Start Drinking Milk? On the Ancient Rise of Dairy Consumption

    By Anne Mendelson  January 9, 2025
    Family Histories

    From Red Dust to Distrust: On the Unhealed Wounds of Nuclear Testing

    Emily Yates-Doerr Explores a Family History of Illness, Government Cover-Ups and Institutional Skepticism

    By Emily Yates-Doerr  January 9, 2025
    Ancient History

    What Roman Coins Reveal About the People Who Made Them

    By Gareth Harney  January 8, 2025
    literary criticism

    Judith Shakespeare, Grinning Literary Ghost: Lauren Groff on the Nuances of A Room of One’s Own

    By Lauren Groff  January 7, 2025
    World War II

    Democracy vs. Autocracy, Cooperation vs. Conflict: How World War II Was Won

    By Hal Brands  January 23, 2025
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